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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 20 May 2015

Ignoring everything that made the 1982 ghost-horror classic so iconic, this remake merely feels like yet another Insidious movie…

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By Mike Mccahill (552) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 20 May 2015

Mostly it’s a scare machine, and in this respect Kenan’s is the more efficient telling, its VFX lubricating all that now creaks about the…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 20 May 2015

Poltergeist is basically a live-action version of Monster House, and that is a very good thing…

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By Sam Woolf (118) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 20 May 2015

The new Poltergeist doesn't desecrate the familiar skeleton of the original, but it doesn't do a whole lot with it either…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 20 May 2015

Poltergeist, a condensed remake of Tobe Hooper's 1982 horror film, is doubly redundant…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFrightFile.com (124) on 20 May 2015

Inferior though this twenty-first century rendition is, Poltergeist is a respectable thriller when judged on its own merits…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for Nerd Report (100) on 20 May 2015

The kids get to be the heroes which is very Amblin. There are great moments for the audience to collectively whisper or scream, 'Don't look in there…

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By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 20 May 2015

There are some jumps but few legitimate scares, unlike director Tobe Hooper's original, which, although similarly bloodless, still stands as…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 20 May 2015

Silliness is almost a prerequisite of horror films, of course, but when they are sillier than they are scary, then they have to be marked down…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 20 May 2015

Elevated to more than a so-so remake by a knowing script (a dinner party revelation that the house is built on an old graveyard) and terrific…

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By David Aldridge (158) for Radio Times (2,421) on 20 May 2015

Kenan skilfully combines familiar scary-movie clichés with more original touches, including an innovative use of drone technology, and comes…

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By Garry Mcconnachie (90) for Daily Record (UK) (215) on 20 May 2015

While Poltergeist may not reinvent the wheel it's a fairly enjoyable 90 minutes at the cinema…

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By Ed Potton (195) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 20 May 2015

Poltergeist is an update of the 1982 horror of the same name and remains faithful to its story: spirits terrorise a suburban family and make…

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By Anthony O'connor (88) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 19 May 2015

The Poltergeist remake is dull and almost entirely devoid of scares…

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By Angie Errigo (463) for The List (2,018) on 19 May 2015

There is some nice visual invention here and the performances are pleasing (including Jared Harris as a ghostbuster TV personality who comes…

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By Jon Lyus (167) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 19 May 2015

Gil Kenan had the greatest of source material to work with when given this project and luckily for all of us, he knocks it out of the park…

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By Simon Foster (434) for Screen-Space (209) on 18 May 2015

It's just that little bit sadder that proof exists indicating it could have been so much more…

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By Justin Lowe (291) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 18 May 2015

While Hooper favored shock value and jump scares, Kenan and cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe construct far more fluid sequences as the…

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By Tom Huddleston (600) for Time Out London (344) on 18 May 2015

Poltergeist, while entertaining, has more in common with slick, audience-goosing spookers like Insidious and Sinister than with the imaginative…

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By Matt Glasby (349) for Total Film (3,532) on 18 May 2015

Very tame, but saved from the remake scrapheap by Sam Rockwell's surprisingly touching performance and a final reel that – briefly – takes…

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